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- Comment on Dead Game News: Early plans for stopping companies from destroying games | Accursed Farms/Ross Scott 3 months ago:
I don't expect anything will come out this but I really appreciate Ross trying to give it an honest shot. I can't help since I don't own the game but I can at least cheer from the sidelines an lend my power for a spirit bomb.
Go Ross Go!
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- Comment on Star Racer - Official Early Access Release Date Trailer 4 months ago:
I checked out the demo and you can actually select one of the few speed settings in the options menu. Some of them felt pretty fast but I'm not an expert on racers so you might want to check out the demo to see if any of them gets close to what you're looking for.
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- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 boss says gamers don’t want mass subscriptions 5 months ago:
Just wanted to mention that just like with any other F2P games, there are gacha titles that are fun without paying anything. Not as many as the predatory kind but still.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 boss says gamers don’t want mass subscriptions 5 months ago:
My point is that however you feel about microtransactions they are successful and that's why they're so common.
With subscription services you and me can think "I want to own it and play whenever" but a lot (not only casual) players see it as "I pay a few $ and get access to a huge library of games I can try out for the next month".
As I wrote initially, just because more dedicated audience doesn't like the direction industry is moving in doesn't mean majority will care enough to stop it.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 boss says gamers don’t want mass subscriptions 5 months ago:
As much as I agree with his sentiment, this title is bullshit - he never wrote "gamers don't want subscriptions" but that they shouldn't want that due to where it might lead.
"Gamers" aren't some hivemind entity that wants a specific thing. Many people don't worry whether an idea pushed by the publishers will have a long term negative effect on the industry, they just want to have fun with their hobby.
Look at microtransactions - there's a lot of negative discussion about them and yet they bring huge amounts of money, who's to say if the same won't happen with subscription services? We might not like it but majority doesn't necessarily care.
Sorry for being pedantic about a title but third-parties changing someone's words is a bit of a pet peeve of mine.
- Comment on Valve: Most games made with AI tools are now welcome on Steam 5 months ago:
Oh, totally. I didn't mean to imply otherwise.
Personally I'd love to see a new take on Daggerfall using AI for features you mentioned (though it would have to be an "all in" affair as Bethesda's approach to randomly generated content these days is... not particularly impressive).
- Comment on Valve: Most games made with AI tools are now welcome on Steam 5 months ago:
It's not like they can really avoid it. AI assisted tools will become a standard in the future ("productivity has to go up" after all) and there's a good chance Valve already received some feedback from AAA publishers on that matter, since they'll be the main players utilizing such tech.
The good thing here is the exsitance of a disclaimer on store pages, as it will allow people to decide for themselves, and the ability to report content straight from in-game overlay.
Full on ban was never a realistic option.
- Comment on Community for finding communities? 5 months ago:
There are also these two sites:
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I guess it depends on your motivation for said project.
Do you enjoy the process of working on the project? Do you use it to learn new things and improve the skills required for it? Or all you care about is the end project?
If it's the last one I can see why you could get discouraged but if it's the other two then not really.
If I work on something specific I do it because I want to create this thing using my skills, experience and ideas. I also try to do as much of it as I can on my own, without using other's people assets etc. For me, the work I put in is an important of the process and each step towards completion makes me a little proud and happy that I can create something.
At the same time I'm a weirdo who tends to use less efficient methods if they aren't as fun to use when working on personal projects. I don't really care about using AI in the first place so that might skew my view a bit.
There's also the fact that AI isn't omnipotent. It makes mistakes just like us and I'd rather fix my own mistakes since this way I know what I did, how I did it and where to look when things go wrong.
Sorry for the word salad. Your post gave me a reason to spew some unfiltered thoughts about an issue I never really thought about.
- Comment on What's special about Misskey that Mastodon doesn't have? 9 months ago:
Why do we need lemmy and kbin? Why do we need various linux distros? Why do we need different office suites?
Having a choice is always a positive, more so if those alternatives are compatible like various activity pub projects.
I don't have an up to date feature comparison between Mastodon and Misskey but some of the things that differentiated the latter were:
- better threading
- improved markdown support (animated, also could render LaTeX formatting if I'm recall correctly)
- calendar
- drive
- emoji reactions (this replaces "likes" for example)
- trends
- tips for newcomers
Keep in mind, these are from few years ago so some things may have been changed or added to Mastodon (I'm not too familiar with Twitter like projects in general).
There's also already mentioned focus on Japanese audience - some of it comes down to already mentioned features (I feel like western social media aren't as... animated? as Asian or at least Japanese ones), as well as culture (I think this picture of one of the tips is a good start.
I'm sure someone more familiar with both can come up with a better comparison but I think that the main point of just having an option is the most valid one.
